Posted
by
Soulskill
on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:44PM
from the if-you-can't-beat-'em dept.

mlingojones writes "TorrentFreak breaks the news of The Pirate Bay's acquisition by Warner Bros: 'After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.'"

Wait, so does this mean I can download torrents from TPB on my Time/Warner cable modem, FINALLY?!? This is great! People doubted the cable companies, but they're finally showing some hope, what with this and the non-secret bandwidth limits.

"Wait, so does this mean I can download torrents from TPB on my Time/Warner cable modem, FINALLY?!? This is great! People doubted the cable companies, but they're finally showing some hope, what with this and the non-secret bandwidth limits."

Well, yes and no.

YOu can now hook in to PB for torrents and download what you wish.

The downside is that since Warner bought the Pirate BAy.....there will no longer be any Warner Bros. titles offered there. Only stuff from the other guys.....

See, back in the day,/. used to come up with one really good original April Fool's joke. It was like they crafted it over the course of a month or two, then popped it on an unsuspecting crowd. It was elegant, it was funny and it suckered lots and lots of people.

That evolved into the new philosophy of the past few years which is "if one really good joke was great, how about a bunch of really lame ones?" It's quantity over quality which, I guess, is what we want now.

That's what I love about the Brits. Yes, we Yanks/Americans get all the crap for not speaking English properly. Yet somehow our Canadian friends to the north, who except for a few odd British spellings (colour) and a few strange words (ever sat on a Winchester? It's not a gun.) say almost the same thing as we do with an accent that's close to ours, yet they escape condemnation. And don't get me started on the Aussies, who would probably say some crap like this:
Apfo pan
and we'd be expected to know that means "April Fools is pants".

But I digress. Really, you have to love the Brits. According to one source I found, saying that something "is pants" means it's of poor quality. So instead of saying
April Fools is lame
or
April Fools' is tired (note the apostrophe because the day is April Fools' Day with an apostrophe)
they have to tell us that "it's pants", which somehow we non-Brits will all magically know.
For shizzle my nizzle.

hey have to tell us that "it's pants", which somehow we non-Brits will all magically know.

I would like to tell you to turn in your card or something, but nobody else seems to remember how the "ispants" slashdot meme started. First there was this story [slashdot.org] which introduced the crowd to the term. Then people (I bet mostly Americans, since it never happened before) started tagging idle stories as "idleispants."

Basically, the person you replied to might not even be British. He might be one of us Americans, who is using a meme that he expects the slashdot crowd to be familiar with.

More breaking news: Darl McBride announced that he's going to throw his weight behind linux; "If you can't beat'em, join'em." he declared in a surprise announcement from amidst the still smoking ruins of SCO's headquarters.

He was hospitalized shortly afterward in critical condition due to what appears to be injuries inflicted by an office chair.

I see a couple of banner ads on/. that one might think are April Fools jokes: T. Boone Pickens on the stimulus plan and the BSA. I don't believe the T. Boone Pickens ads are April Fools because I started seeing them yesterday, or earlier. But BSA ads? Can anyone think of a less receptive audience than/. for the BSA?

Warner Bros. was a pioneer of films with synchronized sound (then known as "talking pictures" or "talkies"). In 1925, at the urging of Sam, the Warners agreed to expand their operations by adding this feature to their productions.[16] Harry, however, opposed it,[17] famously wondering, "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

Maybe, like, people who went to plays? The demographic that at the time would likely have been the biggest attendees of moving

Remember when Napster sold itself to the music industry. That was originally an April fool's story, before it became real. Then there was the April fool's story about taxpayers paying off all the mortgages in the world.